I am a photographer from East Hertfordshire/Essex/London. I started this blog to share some of my photography ideas and thinking. This blog is a mixture of my photography, thinking behind some photo shoots and some equipment reviews. The reviews are just my user experience and nothing more. My passion is portraits, editorial and fashion photography.
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Monday, July 15, 2013

Red Bull Soap Box Race

The moment before impact!

I spent a very enjoyable day at the Red Bull Soap Box
Race. I used my Olympus E-PM2 with the
40-150mm IIR lens shooting the soap boxes coming down the 400m long
course. Mirrorless cameras are not
known for their continuous tracking ability but I decided to use this event to
try out C-FA+TR focus mode. Here is a sequence of a crash in focus.

I stationed myself at the finish ramp at the bottom for most
of the day and I was pleasantly surprised at the number of images in
focus. The soap boxes were traveling at
about 30mph (50kph) by the time they hit the ramp at the finish. As long as I got the first image in focus, it was able to track focus most of the time.

There were a number of crashes and some people
needed to visit the hospital for broken hand, missing tooth and broken
nose. The race organiser had to alter
the course to slow the soap box down with a chicane and then reduce the angle
of the ramp at the end.

It was a great day out and would definitely go to a future
event. Here are some of the great images
captured during the day.